User manual

LaCinema Mini HD Bridge Setting Up: Transferring Files

User Manual page 18

3.1. Connect Storage (External Hard

Drive or Internal Hard Disk)

3.1.1. Option A: Connect External Hard

Drive

This chapter explains how to load ﬁles onto your external hard drive,

then how to connect the drive to your LaCinema Mini HD Bridge.

If you don’t need to transfer ﬁles to the hard drive, skip to step #5.

The LaCinema Mini HD Bridge is compatible with three disk formats:

HFS+ (non-journaled), NTFS, and FAT32. Refer to section 8. Refor-

matting the LaCinema Mini HD Bridge for formatting information.

1. Connect your USB hard drive’s power cord (if applicable) and

turn it on (if applicable).

2. Connect the USB cable from the hard drive to the USB port on

your computer (Fig. 16).

3. When the drive mounts on your computer, copy the media ﬁles

you wish to play on your LaCinema Mini HD Bridge from your

computer to the external hard drive.

4. Disconnect the USB hard drive from your computer as noted in

section 3.2. Unmounting Your Drive.

5. Connect the external hard drive to the LaCinema Mini HD

Bridge by connecting its USB cable to the corresponding port

on the front or back of the LaCinema Mini HD Bridge (Fig. 17).

6. Continue to 4. Setting Up: Connecting to TV and Network.

Fig. 16

Fig. 17